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Some to the sun their insect - wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms , too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew ...
Some to the sun their insect - wings unfold , Waft on the breeze , or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms , too fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew ...
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... While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain : Or alum styptics with contracting power Shrink his thin essence like a rivell'd flower : Or , as Ixion fix'd , the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling wheel , In fumes ...
... While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain : Or alum styptics with contracting power Shrink his thin essence like a rivell'd flower : Or , as Ixion fix'd , the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling wheel , In fumes ...
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... save what we find on remnants huge Of stone , or marble swart ; their import gone , Their wisdom long since fled . -Two wings this orb Possess'd for glory , two fair argent wings , Ever exalted at the God's approach : And now ,.
... save what we find on remnants huge Of stone , or marble swart ; their import gone , Their wisdom long since fled . -Two wings this orb Possess'd for glory , two fair argent wings , Ever exalted at the God's approach : And now ,.
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Contents
CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to Keats Volume 2 of The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 511 pages |
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